From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Mosberger Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2003 23:39:46 +0000 Subject: Re: [Linux-ia64] Itanium gets supercomputing software Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org >>>>> On Fri, 11 Apr 2003 06:55:30 +1000, Duraid Madina said: Duraid> You and I both know the only real barrier to Itanium Duraid> adoption is the price. Can anyone here shed some light on Duraid> this? Why is Itanium hardware still so expensive? Remember that Intel is targeting Itanium 2 against Power4 and SPARC. In that space, the price of Itanium 2 is very competitive. Duraid> Seriously, IA64 must be the first architecture in history Duraid> where a software simulator is still being developed 4 years Duraid> after commercial availability of silicon (indeed, entire Duraid> systems). What's a software simulator got to do with anything? Certain things are easier to develop on a simulator, others are easier to develop on hardware. Nothing unique to IA64. --david